laurus
See also: Laurus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
- daurus (laurel)
Etymology edit
From Old Latin dacrus. Related to Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel”), whence also the given name Δάφνη (Dáphnē). Possibly related to Latin lacrima, dacrima and Ancient Greek δάκρυ (dákru), referring to the shape of flowers, although this is uncertain.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlau̯.rus/, [ˈɫ̪äu̯rʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlau̯.rus/, [ˈläːu̯rus]
Noun edit
laurus f (genitive laurī); second declension
- laurel tree
- (metonymically) laurels; a crown of laurel
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | laurus | laurī |
Genitive | laurī | laurōrum |
Dative | laurō | laurīs |
Accusative | laurum | laurōs |
Ablative | laurō | laurīs |
Vocative | laure | laurī |
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: laur
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Ancient borrowings:
- → Albanian: lar
- → Old Irish:
- → Proto-Brythonic:
- Welsh: llawryf
- →⇒ Proto-West Germanic: *laurubaʀi (see there for further descendants)
Unsorted borrowings:
References edit
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 598: “l'alloro” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “laurus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 208
Further reading edit
- “laurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “laurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- laurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette